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ShadowCam Captures the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter!
The Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) lunar orbiter, Danuri, flew 18 kilometers above the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter on 7 April 2023, enabling ShadowCam to capture this dramatic image of LRO. The relative velocity between ...
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ShadowCam Cruises Through Dark
A sequence of five calibration images, or dark images, acquired by ShadowCam while looking into deep space during its cruise to the Moon onboard the Korean Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO) spacecraft. ShadowCam calibration ...
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ShadowCam
Seeing in the Shadows
ShadowCam is based on the successful Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) and is approximately 200 times more sensitive than the current NAC, which will allow scientists to see into the permanently shadowed regions (PSRs) surrounding the Moon's poles.

What are PSRs?
Permanently Shadowed Regions
Permanently shadowed regions (PSRs) may be the most valuable real estate in the Solar System, with the potential for cold-trapped volatiles, which could provide essential resources to enable future exploration of the Moon and beyond.

The Mission